Solved V 6.7 | Context Menu | Rollback Font / Size

bariton

@sgunhouse Yes, I totally prefer the mouse.

love2dgame

I used "Compact menu". Effective, not completely.

stardepp

TheFrozenSlime

Thanks for the screenshot, and the pointers. I got a larger monitor recently (from a 21.5' to a 27'), and I have a lot of bookmarks, so part of the appeal of moving to a larger monitor was more screen space for the context menus. The redesigned context menus take up just as much screen space on the larger monitor as the old layout did on the old monitor! I will be very sad when this design gets forced upon me... the initial Chrome redesign getting forced back in 2018 was the whole reason I switched to Vivaldi in the first place!

Pesala

@TheFrozenSlime The menus are customisable. It makes more sense than ever to remove rarely used items, or add some subfolders. The fix will not work for long.

Bookmarks also need to be better organised, as scrolling through long lists is inefficient compared to having two or more subfolders that do not need to scroll at all.

I recommend 20 or fewer bookmarks/items in any folder before creating a new subfolder.

Access Keys can help if you’re an avid keyboard user and don’t like to use a mouse or trackpad.

TheFrozenSlime

@Pesala Oh, I'm aware. I've got bookmarks that have been there for a decade, and haven't been used in just as long. I could probably get rid of half my bookmarks if I cut the ones I don't actively use. I may just be lazy, or perhaps part me me doesn't want to remove them, almost like they're some sort of memorial of where I've come from. Is that weird?

I do have subfolders, but even those have 40+ items in some of them.

Pesala

@TheFrozenSlime My rarely used bookmarks are not displayed on my Bookmark Bar. I have to use the Bookmark Menu to access them.

Create a Bookmarks Bar folder containing just the bookmarks that you use fairly regularly.

One can put off tidying up only for so long, then the mess starts to get in the way of productivity. Seeing that this change to menu spacing is likely to become permanent, it may pay off to spend a few hours cleaning up, sooner rather than later to keep ahead of the game.

It is your choice; some people can work fine in a messy environment.

mib2berlin

@TheFrozenSlime
Hi, there are extensions to check bookmarks if the page even exist or delete duplicates.
I had thousands of bookmarks in the past and 50% was outdated anyway.
The company went bankrupt, the address changed or the site owner was dead.

Cheers, mib

RogerWilco

@mib2berlin

Thank goodness. Required a browser restart, but the information density is now back to normal.

I wonder why companies think that it is a good thing to roll out such changes without asking the users which one they prefer, especially if the application was already installed and configured to meet the user's preferences.

And this change did not only affect the context menu, but also the entire menu bar at the top.

SkyBorg

@FinderEx said in V 6.7 | How to rollback the context menu font ?:

Does anyone know how to return the previous font of the context menu?

It takes up a lot of screen space, the previous one worked fine.

Agree what we have now is huge and should have NEVER been made this way. Not only does it take a lot of screen reastate, but it also has to be scrolled if you rightclick on the right element to get a context menu as you can see from the tiny arrows at the top and bottom of the context menu in the second image.

SkyBorg

@mib2berlin said in V 6.7 | How to rollback the context menu font ?:

@FinderEx
Hi, search for "compact" in the settings search field.

Cheers, mib

Simply why was it changed at all? It was perfectly fine the way it was. Txt not too small or too large. Increase the text make it and the context menu box look out of place. Someone was not thinking.

mib2berlin

I like the new menus very much and this was not a decision of the Vivaldi team, the menus are Chromium code.
This setting will not last, the Chromium developer will remove the old menu code at some point.
The Vivaldi team need to write the complete menu code from scratch to make it editable, for example.

Cheers, mib

SkyBorg

@mib2berlin said in V 6.7 | How to rollback the context menu font ?:

I like the new menus very much and this was not a decision of the Vivaldi team, the menus are Chromium code.
This setting will not last, the Chromium developer will remove the old menu code at some point.
The Vivaldi team need to write the complete menu code from scratch to make it editable, for example.

Cheers, mib

The new menu is a JOKE. The design maybe Chromiums but the decisions to have that setting unchecked and not inform the enduses were Vivaldi's.

Donion

Not to mention the rounded corners, gross.

mib2berlin

@SkyBorg
This setting is only a workaround, the next Chromium update can remove the flag the setting use.
This should never be a default setting.
I stop posting here now, it will not change.

exalted

Hi everyone,

My favorites menus just got bigger and wider all of a sudden. Is this something I can revert back to the old look?

Using 6.7.3329.17 here.

Thanks

DoctorG

@exalted Setting → Appearance → Compact Layout

exalted

@DoctorG
That did it. Thank you very much!

SkyBorg

I guess we will have to hope someone figures out how the HACK the font for the context menu. Bigger is not always better, and this is one of those cases that proves that.

g_bartsch

@mib2berlin I'll look for such an extension. I want to run it on my bookmarks. Have you got a favorite?